A Love Like Pi's singer Lief Liebmann thinks some pretty deep thoughts. If you can't tell by the band's name, it's not just verse-chorus-verse for these guys, made up of Liebmann, bassist Chez and drummer Christopher LoPorto. There's science, there's emotions, there's life.

Take, for example, the video for the New York trio's carrier single from the 2014 EP Jack and the Giant. "The video is all about the space that widens between you and your imagination as you grow older ... The challenge was to create a world that felt expansive, to follow a character we could relate to, and to highlight the ambitious themes of the song all within a space of about the size of a petri dish."

These themes are echoed in A Love Like Pi's upcoming full-length, III, which comes out September 18. Liebmann says, "III began as an extension of some of the themes we loved in our Jack and the Giant EP and quickly turned into the more complicated and ambitious narrative." Tody, Myspace premieres the band's newest single, "Wide Awake." Stream the song above, and learn a little more about it below.

Hometown: I grew up in a small town in Switzerland called Diepoldsau.

Homebase: Harlem, in New York City.

Why are you called A Love Like Pi?

Pi is a number that has occupied this unique space in mathematics as a never-ending, patternless, almost mystic number. Love is the same way. It occupies a similarly irrational, eternal, and powerful space in our lives

Your new single reminds me of the songs by 1990s ethnic-electro group Deep Forest. What is "Wide Awake" about? 

"Wide Awake" is the first death song on the record. I was traveling through southeast Asia earlier this year and giggled through a traditional Vietnamese water-puppet show before I realized that those melodies would haunt my dreams for the next few weeks. I brought a piece of that home with me and it manifested in this track.

You've said that your upcoming album III follows the three stages of life. Can you explain that?

III follows the three stages of life: boy, man, and death using short ~3 minute snapshots. Each section of the album does its best to use language and sounds appropriate for its theme. From the hopeful babble of "Boy" to the plodding dirge of "Heaven's Halberd" we made a real effort to have every track firmly grounded in its respective section's mood and message.

What is your songwriting process like? Do beats, lyrics or melodies come first?

My mind works better when my body is occupied. I pace a lot outdoors while I hum out a melody I'm trying to finish or mumble a lyric I'm fleshing out. It looks as weird as it sounds, I try to avoid being seen.

How did you discover music? Did you grow up in a musical household?

Yeah, my father was a jazz pianist and my mother was a painter. I know how it sounds, but it's the truth. I was slamming my baby hands onto piano keys before I could take off a sweater.

Who are your biggest musical influences?

My father and the countless hymns I endured Sunday mornings as a child.

Who would you love to collaborate with?

Paul Simon or Diplo. Maybe the guys who wrote the Animaniacs songs.

What's the craziest thing about being in A Love Like Pi?

The ALLP tattoos are insane. Seriously. I can't even commit to a browser tab...knowing that someone found something permanent in your music is incredible.

How do you describe your music to someone who's never heard it before?

We try to take some elements of http://soundcloud.com/alovelikepi, blend them with https://play.spotify.com/artist/0BRqvQoxmmLexIg5tsOeBb. and sprinkle some https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/iii/id1022543845 on top

What one thing do you want people to know about your band?

We don't write songs about pastries.